Jesus
A Revolutionary Biography
by John Dominic Crossan
John Dominic Crossan's best selling
and critically acclaimed biography of the historical Jesus.
Book Reviews
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"This is an outstanding book - both popular
and intelligent. Accessible language and direct, dramatic narration...
a compelling portrait of Jesus." |
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--Publishers Weekly |
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"Crossan paints his Jesus with great warmth
and power. He achieves a portrait that both takes in the contemporary
background yet accounts for Jesus' distinctiveness... This Jesus
is a Jewish peasant, with a direct sense of God's immediacy, who
shatters all social restraints." |
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-- New York Times Book Review |
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"Jesus is a magisterial distillation of
Crossan's lifelong work on the gospels and Jesus. It deserves careful
and extended consideration by everyone seriously interested in
the enigmatic sage from Galilee. With his work on Jesus, Crossan
joins the ranks of the truly great biblical scholars of the twentieth
century. His 'revolutionary biography' is the biography of a revolutionary:
the book and its subject are rebels in the cause of truth." |
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-- Robert W. Funk, editor of
The Five Gospels |
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"This is an extremely interesting, erudite,
informative, must-read for anyone interested in the New Testament...
Read it." |
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-- National Catholic Reporter |
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